Cloning
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Cloning refers to a process of producing genetically-identical individuals by asexual means.
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- In an ideal world, human reproductive cloning would be safe, legal and rare
- No doubt the person whose experimental skill will eventually bring forth a clonal baby will be given wide notoriety. But the child who grows up knowing that the world wants another Picasso may view his creator in a different light.
- James Watson, Moving toward the Clonal Man (1971).
- If the times comes when scientists conclude that reproductive cloning can be conducted without a threat to the health of the offspring, then the burden will fall upon opponents to explain precisely why such a practice threatens human dignity or societal welfare. The cry of "we don't like it"—which has been used to justify opposing every aspect of human enlightenment from women's suffrage to gay equality—will simply not be a sufficient answer.
